Gifcities.org

"GifCities: The GeoCities Animated Gif Search Engine was a special project of the Internet Archive done as part of our 20th Anniversary to highlight and celebrate fun aspects of the amazing history of the web as represented in the web archive and the Wayback Machine."

GifCities began as a side project by my colleagues Jefferson and Vinay. They had extracted all the animated GIFS from GeoCities from the Wayback Machine. I saw an opportunity to develop a user interface for this search index and developed it over the weekend. It later became an official project of the Internet Archive, and we spent more time refining it and releasing it to the public.

Archive Experiments

Inspired by Google's Chrome Experiments, Archive Experiments is a showcase of community made experiments built with data and services from Archive.org.

I thought of, designed, developed, and maintain this showcase. It started as an idea and side project, and now has been endorsed by the Internet Archive. In September 2017, an Archive Experments Hackathon was held at the Internet Archive.

Decentralized Web Summit

I had the privilege to help organize the Decentralized Web Summit at the Internet Archive. This summit featured keynote speeches from Brewster Khale, Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, and Cory Doctorow. It was held at the Internet Archive June 8th - June 9th. People from all over the world came together to discuss how to rebuild the web.

I created the website. It is a static website (no backend), and it is also available through the decentralized filesystem, IPFS.

The Revenant

200miles.com uses cutting edge webgl technologies to create an immersive storytelling experience. Because of this, a simpler mobile version of the site was required. Under the direction of OSK Studio, I developed the mobile version of this website, which recreated some of the interactivity, while staying within the capabilities of what is possible on mobile.

Processing Foundation

The founders of Folder Studio also went to UCLA albeit a bit later than myself. We still found a way to connect and worked together on the Processing Foundation website. Having studied with Casey Reas and used Processing in the past, it was a joy to work on this project.

For this website, I modeled the data and implemented a custom content management system that manages the data behind the site.

Google Frightgeist

Every day, over 3 billion searches take place on Google, and Google Trends gives us an unparalleled look at what the world is searching for. Google News Lab puts that data to use — from powering insightful journalism to helping you pick out your Halloween costume.

Frightgeist is a whimsical Halloween microsite. I worked with Use All Five and the Google Creative Lab. My role was to take raw data from the Google Trends team and process it to produce an JSON api for the frontend. During the week leading up to Halloween, the site was featured on the homepage of Google. The site won the 2016 Webby Award for "Best Visual Design - Function".

Android Experiments

Android was created as an open and flexible platform, giving people more ways to come together to imagine and create. Developers everywhere have used the unique capabilities of the platform to push the limits of what’s possible on phones, tablets, watches and beyond.

Android Experiments is a website by Google designed to showcase the creative possibilities of the Android platform.

This was my first project working together with both Use All Five and the Google Creative Lab. My role was to build the CMS and API that powered the frontend. At the Creative Lab's request, the backend was written in the Go programming language.

Ex Machina

Ava Sessions - I added the feature to Geocode the user locations with GeoIP and show contextual weather information. I implemented the backend API that received image uploads from the client and created various thumbnails and uploaded them to Amazon S3.

I also helped architect and implement the mobile website. Since the desktop site was built with React, it was possible to create a separate root component that reused but differently composed components from the desktop site.

Most credit, however, is due to Osk Studio for their design and coding.